The 2024 election ended badly for Texas Democrats. They were at a disadvantage from the start and it got worse, one election analysis reveals.
With Donald Trump’s vows to radically revise the US immigration system, Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, said deportations should narrowly focus on convicted criminals.
A Texas Republican has filed a bill this week that would allow either of the two state’s senators to be recalled if "they go rogue" midterm. Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) introduced House Bill 1267 which states that either Sen.
Across border counties, Trump's share of the vote rose almost 10 points from four years ago and was about 20 points higher than in his first presidential campaign in 2016.
With Donald Trump returning to the White House, Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have both recently signaled new openness to winding down the state’ border security operation.
The right to abortion won big this election—and so did the man who ended Roe v. Wade. Nowhere was that contradiction more pronounced than in Amarillo, Texas.
With Election Day in the past, the race for Texas House speaker is heating up as the Republican incumbent tries to hold onto the leadership role and a North Texas Republican tries to win it. Speaker Dade Phelan of Beaumont and Rep. David Cook of Mansfield are running for the post, as is Rep. Ana-María Rodríguez Ramos, a Richardson Democrat.
Republicans grew their majority in the Texas House with help from Gov. Greg Abbott, forging a path for a possible school voucher program next year.
“Wicked” stars singer Ariana Grande and Oscar-nominated actress Cynthia Erivo as witches Glinda and Elphaba, respectively. The two-part movie is a cinematic adaptation of the famed Broadway musical, which is a prequel to “The Wizard of Oz” and tells an alternate version of events before Dorothy’s arrival in Oz.
At Shell Energy Stadium, Harris addressed a crowd of 30,000, advocating for reproductive freedom alongside Texas Democratic Senate candidate Colin Allred. In Austin, Trump, joined by Sen. Ted Cruz, focused on border security and crimes committed by migrants, reiterating his party's core messages.
Democrat Colin Allred leads incumbent Republican Ted Cruz in the race for U.S. Senate. Allred, a U.S. representative from Dallas, has 49.9% of the vote to Cruz’s 48.1% with 48% of the vote counted, according to The Associated Press.
In the end, it wasn’t close at all. On election night, Texans handed sweeping victories to the Republican Party that controls the state, and in particular its ascendant MAGA faction. As Vice